To Ask Mumnetters for your help and advice please.

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I am a reg who has namechanged for this as it is embarrassing for me.

Every month for a couple of days prior to my period I am a total nightmare.

I am tetchy and argumentative, tbh I would not want to be near me.

Today DP and I had a row over nothing tbh but i kept on until it turned into a full scale war ending in me slapping him round the face. I am not proud of this and DP was deeply hurt because neither of us are like this. He walked away to our room but I wouldn't leave it, I kept going back at him shouting and being abusive - verbally. He walked out the bedroom and went in the living room.

I then broke down in tears and went to bed where I spent an hour crying before I fell asleep.

DP and I are ok now

How or what can I do to stop my mood swings at this time of the month?

then we will never agree, iget , since I form part of the "orthodox medical system" as you describe it

If you read my posts Eggy you would also see that I have actually studied homoepathy, I was almost at the end of a 4 year course but had to leave for personal reasons, so I am speaking with a little more experience and knowledge then the opinions of 'a couple of my mates'.

Try it. If it doesn't work than all that has been lost is £4.50.

skin, you can also buy EPO off the shelves of PoundStretcher !

'nuff said

iget,your advice is shocking and biased.bang your anti-medical drum elsewhere

what goes on between op and her gp certainly isn't likely to be "chuff all"

some quack with o level in give-me-ye-rmoney-i-give-you-woohoo is not likely to be skilled at treatment and diagnostics,but will certainly sell her stuff

op anyone can set up as herbalist - it is an unregistered unprotected title

I dont even take aspirin! I am more swayed to try the Sepia 200c tbh

I was just reading about PMDD - I have copied and pasted the symptons I have/recognise.

feelings of deep sadness or despair,
feelings of tension or anxiety
increased sensitivity to rejection or criticism
mood swings, crying
lasting irritability or anger, increased interpersonal conflicts.
apathy or disinterest in daily activities and relationships
difficulty concentrating
fatigue
food cravings
insomnia or hypersomnia; sleeping more than usual, or (in a smaller group of sufferers) being unable to sleep
feeling overwhelmed
increase in sex drive
increased need for emotional closeness

with me I go from wanting to sleep all the time to not being able to sleep over a couple of days.

Iget , I read your posts and anyone who completely rubbishes the experience and knowledge of the medical profession in favour of homeopathy is not someone I can engage with in a reasoned argument, tbh

good luck, OP

Well it can't hurt to try it can it? What has anyone got to lose? I fr one do not want to take hormones and other drugs with side affects. I know herbal medicines can also have them...but usually less significantly.

Eggy, Thankyou. I will see my gp but I will try the sepia. I have personal reasons for not liking medication as such BUT I will not let this happen again.

Howto, SSRI's have had success in treating PMDD

you won't find those on the shelves of Poundstretcher

see your GP and look after yourself

< shrugs >

your call

Well that's where you're wrong Eggy, I think both systems of medicine have their place and whilst homoepathy and herbalism DO have widespread benefits when used correctly, I am not so blinkered that I can't see that sometimes what a person needs is, say, a bloody good course of antibiotics. Natural medicine and orthodox medicine both have a place in the world, and to anyone who thinks that natural medicine is all bollocks, well there's millions of people out there who would disagree. And manufactured chemical drugs have been around for a very short period of time, whereas man has been using natural remedies since time began.

Sounds like one of us isn't capable of reasoned argument.

I do have a problem with "normal" meds since a very close relative was overdosed on them by hospital staff and consequently died. I will go Natural Meds I think.

iget,you have obvious anti-medical bias and cant contain self

your advice is skewed and biased "Just about every woman sufferers from some degree of PMT, and there's absolutely chuff all her GP can/will do about it"

have posted some potential treatments a gp can discuss in consultation- that is certainly not "chuff all" and it is wrong to be so dismissive of a private discussion op and gp will have

Scottishmummy - at no point have I advised OP to shell out loads of money to a 'quack', as you so delightfully put it. I pointed her towards a remedy which has a very strong success rate for treating PMT and she has spent less than a fiver.

As for banging my anti-medical drum, I have been plagued with health problems for 20 years as a result of doctors over-prescribing a type of medication. In 2001 I got an admission of liability from my doctors surgery. So, they don't always know what they are on about, and their actions can and do wreck peoples lives.

Scottish, I will be seeing my GP and explaining everything to her.

I am not ruling anything out.

thankyou ladies, I need to be off to bed now as I have a banging headache right now.

(and today was a bad day for me as well for other reasons)

Well that's your opinion Scottishmummy, but luckily for her the OP appears to agree with me.

I am saying that for one month she should give this remedy a go - it will not hurt her in any way and I am fairly confident it will help her.

If it doesn't work, she has lost nothing and she can toddle off to the GP. I am confused about how exactly I have stepped too far out of line here.

sorry for your troubles,that is shocking but you cannot reduce this to gp can do "chuff all". i am sorry to read your relative suffered drug miscalculation and died- that is dreadful

BUT still cannot sweepingly dismiss another individuals gp consultation or pre-empt what her gp may or may not do as chuff all

a differrent pil may help if you can take it. ask your gp. they can help

Perfectly possible to overdose and die of natural meds too. That is a terrible mistake and does not make orthodox medicine any more dangerous than natural.

No-one has ever OD'd on homoepathy. That is not possible.

well as no active ingredient.hard to od on water's memory or some such juice

But it is on natural meds. Perfectly possible and has happened.